While the presence of these molecules is not proof of ancient life on Mars, scientists say it shows we could detect chemical signatures of past life, if it ever existed. Scientists have announced ...

"The fact that fragile linear molecules are still present at Mars' surface 3.7 billion years after their formation allows us to make a new statement: If life ever appeared on Mars billions of ...

Dizzying though this may seem, life is always in motion, right down to its fundamental building blocks — molecules. Molecules can be thought of as atoms that share electrons. They form ...

Splitting water molecules takes more energy than calculations suggest, and is a key roadblock to cheap hydrogen fuel production. Now, scientists have discovered why.

While the compounds themselves could have been constructed by non-living processes, the very fact they exist at all demonstrates the rover's ability to identify long organic molecules on the Martian ...

The Mars Curiosity rover’s onboard mini-lab has helped confirm the existence of the largest organic molecules ever found on the Red Planet. The trio of long-chain compounds preserved in Martian ...

These organic molecules – the longest identified so far – could originate from fatty acids, which are the building blocks of fats and oils and are created on Earth through biological activity.

March 25 (UPI) --The NASA rover "Curiosity" discovered what scientists say is the largest ever seen organic molecules on Mars, raising speculation about if life was created billions of years ago ...

Table 2. Docking score and intermolecular interaction of DSF and standard molecules with the prioritized targets involved in RF. To validate the docking protocol, the overlays between the docked ...

SEE ALSO: NASA dropped a new report. It's a wake-up call. These newly identified chains of organic molecules, which are based on carbon similar to much of life on Earth, certainly add more weight ...

In a breakthrough discovery, researchers have found the largest organic compounds ever seen on Mars, offering new clues about whether life once existed on the Red Planet. Buried within a 3.7 ...

Molecular Biology is the field of biology that studies the composition, structure and interactions of cellular molecules such as nucleic acids and proteins that carry out the biological ...